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121) Turquoise boy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A retelling of a Navajo Indian legend in which Turquoise Boy searches for something that will make the Navajo people's lives easier. Includes a brief history of the Navajo people and their customs.
126) Changing woman
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Description
The authors' seventh satisfying novel (after 2001's Red Mesa) about Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah finds her Native American community wracked by internal divisions as well as besieged and bedeviled by deadly outside forces.
127) Navajo
Author
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Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This title introduces readers to the Navajo people. Text covers traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing, and more. Also discussed is contact with Europeans, as well as how the people keep their culture alive today. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
128) Loving Chloe
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Horsewoman Chloe arrives at Hank's cabin in Arizona to announce she is pregnant and they resume their romance. The baby is delivered by Junior Whitebear, a handsome Indian and Chloe falls in love with him, concluding she is not destined to be a one-man woman. By the author of Hank and Chloe.
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Portrayed by past historians as the greatest guide and Indian fighter in the West, Kit Carson has become in recent years a historical pariah--a brutal murderer who betrayed the Navajos, and an unwitting dupe of American expansion, and a racist. Many historians now question both his reputation and his place in the pantheon of American heroes. Here we are urged to reconsider Carson yet again. Carson was a man of the nineteenth century, whose racial...
133) Ghost medicine
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"Former Navajo Police officer Harry Ute's body is found in an isolated part of the Navajo Reservation, rumored to be skinwalker country. This makes Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah's job much harder--no one wants to speak to her for fear of incurring the wrath of the Navajo witches. Harry's latest P.I. case involves tracking down property stolen from the county. This leads Ella to work with county Detective Dan Nez. Ella doesn't trust...
Author
Pub. Date
1973.
Description
For a long time, what I knew of Navajo life came to me in fragments. These made some things clearer, but they usually ended in deepening the mystery surrounding still others. I do not think I know now, or will ever understand very well who the Navajos are. The mystery will survive my curiosity, just as I think it has the inquiries of many others, even Navajos, who set out to understand the life of an entire people.
139) The Navajo
Author
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
This book introduces the history, culture, religion, family life, and tribal government of the Navajo people.
140) Navajo autumn
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Reservation "Bad Boy" Thomas Begay is found dead-drunk under the La Plata Bridge ... not unusual for Thomas Begay. What is unusual, however, is the beautiful BIA investigator Patsy Greyhorse, found lying beside him ... not drunk, or even a Navajo, but very dead nonetheless. Charlie Yazzi, fresh from law school, risks his career ... and his life, to help his old friend. The answer seems to lie with the Yeenaaldiooshii ... should one choose to believe...
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